Can’t Win Me Back

Amber's eyes reddened as she darted toward the trapdoor in The Millennium, tears streaming down her face.

Remy had let her go.

He actually spared her! Didn't this prove that he was Damien? That his true nature lingered, even if his memories of the past had been lost? Hope and excitement bubbled within her as she ran.

She had to reach Alyssa immediately and share this evidence—this incredible news! Emerging from the trapdoor, Amber navigated the tangled paths among the weeds on the mountain behind The Millennium.

Suddenly, she froze.

Her breath hitched.

Beams of white light shone from all directions, focusing on her.

The cold, unyielding spotlights told her everything—she was surrounded, the target of an ambush.

Amber's heart pounded in her chest.

Cold sweat slicked her palms as her fingers clenched tightly around her dagger.

The veins on the back of her hand throbbed with adrenaline.

Six assassins in black emerged from the shadows, their flashlights cutting through the gloom like the eyes of hungry hyenas.

the lights focusing on her, there was no

only path to survival was through

eyes burned with determination as she charged

neck of the nearest assassin, a

moved with desperate precision, aiming for vital

the man, who had clearly

the ground, and blood

opening,

all, this might very well be

just her survival—it was about delivering the evidence

but an ominous sense of doom

make it back

one was immediately behind her, Amber pulled

beneath a tree with her dagger and buried the

moved to the side to make a call to

answered after a

gentle though tinged

was just about to speak when a gunshot rang

left arm, knocking her phone

down the slope,

of the line,